Bottle washer



Sept. 9, 1924. 1,507,861

v V. SCHWARZ BOTTLE WASHER led Aug. 10 1922 If if; 11 Z2 1 14 7 5? L27? 1 firenfor Patented Sept. 9, 1924.

UNITED STATES VICTOR SGHWAR- Z, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BOTTLE WASHER.

Application filed August 10, 1922. Serial No. 580,858.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR SoHwARz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Washers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle washers, and comprises a device for washing bottles or the like by means of a jet of water acting on a mass of shot which are forced by the jet up into the inverted bottle, and so sediment in the bottle is dislodged and washed out by the water. The device can be attached to an ordinary faucet or any other suitable source of water supply.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a section of the device. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a faucet by which the water supply is controlled. This is coupled to a bent pipe 7 by means of a coupling which in the form shown consists of a rubber tube 8 which fits over the faucet, an adapter 9 which fits around the tube, and which is held thereto by screws 10, and a screw thimble 11 which screws on the adapter and clamps the flange 12 of the pipe 7 thereto, whereby the pipe is supported in position. The other end of the pipe is connected by a coupling 13 to a tube 14 which has a jet hole 15 at the top, and on this tube is mounted a hollow head or cup-shaped shell 16 which has a screen 17 at the bottom and a skirt 18 depending around the same to confine the waste water. The shell 16 is provided internally with a conical or hopper shaped guard 19. A jet pipe 20 is supported at the center of the shell and proj ects above the top of the same, being mounted on a spider 21 which supports it in place. Shot indicated at 22 are contained within the shell, and will tend to collect abovev the jet orifice 15. I

In operation the bottle 30 is inverted over the jet tube 20 and when the water is turned on the jet escaping through the hole 15 will pass up through the tube 20, carrying with it the shot 22 which with the water will impinge against the bottom and sides of the bottle thereby dislodging any dirt, and the Water and shot return to the bottom of the cup or shell, the water escaping through the screen 17, and the shot being forced up again for continued operation. Thereby a bottle or the like can be quickly cleaned and rinsed,

and theshot remain in the shell to be used indefinitely. The guard 19 returns the shot quickly to the vicinity of the jet hole, so

that a constant stream of shot are projected up through the jet tube and into the recepi tacle being cleaned.

The invention is not limited to the'particular device shown, but may bemodified in various ways within the scope of the following claim.

I claim:

A bottle washer comprising a hollow cylindrical head portion having an annular shoulder near its lower end; asubstantially cup shaped screen member arranged in the head portion and having a central opening, an annular flange carried by the screen and resting upon said shoulder, a ring arranged to retain the flange and shoulder in snug,

engagement, said screen having its lower end terminating within the hollow head and connected to a source of water supply, an injector'tube arranged centrally in the head portion and supported by saidring, the

lower end of said injector pipe being spaced I i slightly from the central opening in' the 

